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Autocratic Academy : Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-101478019824
ISBN-139781478019824
eBay Product ID (ePID)10057272528
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAutocratic Academy : Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities
Publication Year2023
SubjectEducational Policy & Reform / General, General, Higher
TypeTextbook
AuthorTimothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
Subject AreaEducation
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2022-043226
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThe book is extraordinarily important at precisely this moment when we need to think seriously about how dangerous our institutions' bylaws are and how devastating it is that we never found a way to give shared governance doctrinal heft or to enshrine faculty control over curricula into law. The path to Commonwealth University--the name Kaufman-Osborn gives to his imaginary member-incorporated institution of higher education--is murky, but we can and should start to renegotiate our governance rules., The Autocratic Academy does not just critique the present condition of higher education in the United States; through its stories of resistance and its vision of an alternative, it gives readers something else to want. These glimpses of flourishing show us what the health of the body politic might look like. We can begin our convalescence now.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal378.73
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments vii A Prologue in the Form of a Puzzle 1 I. Nibbling at the Crust of Convention 1. Imperious Regents and Disposable Custodians 11 2. The Neoliberal Corporation Debunked 30 3. Corporate Types 47 II. Contesting the Constitution of College in Early America 4. William & Mary Dispossessed 63 5. "The College of Tyrannus" 82 6. The Marshall Plan 105 III. A Bet Gone Bad 7. Psychasthenia Universitatis (or The Malady of the Academy) 135 8. "Shared Governance" as Placebo 163 IV. When Autocrats Meet Their Makers 9. Outsourcing Self-Governance 197 10. "Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall . . ." 231 Epilogue: Reenvisioning the Corporate Academy 255 Notes 273 Bibliography 307 Index 327
SynopsisCritics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy's "corporatization" as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocratic Academy Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn argues that American colleges and universities have always been organized as corporations in which the power to rule is legally vested in and monopolized by antidemocratic governing boards. This institutional form, Kaufman-Osborn contends, is antithetical to the free inquiry that defines the purpose of higher education. Tracing the history of the American academy from the founding of Harvard (1636), through the Supreme Court's Dartmouth v. Woodward ruling (1819), and into the twenty-first century, Kaufman-Osborn shows how the university's autocratic legal constitution is now yoked to its representation on the model of private property. Explaining why appeals to the cause of shared governance cannot succeed in wresting power from the academy's autocrats, Kaufman-Osborn argues that American universities must now be reincorporated in accordance with the principles of democratic republicanism. Only then can be academy's members hold accountable those chosen to govern and collectively determine the disposition of higher education's unique public goods., Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn outlines the history of American higher education's formal organization as an incorporated autocracy that is tied to capitalism, arguing that the academy must reconstitute itself in accordance with the principles of democratic republicanism in which members choose who govern and can hold them accountable., Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy's "corporatization" as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocratic Academy Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn argues that American colleges and universities have always been organized as corporations in which the power to rule is legally vested in and monopolized by antidemocratic governing boards. This institutional form, Kaufman-Osborn contends, is antithetical to the free inquiry that defines the purpose of higher education. Tracing the history of the American academy from the founding of Harvard (1636), through the Supreme Court's Dartmouth v. Woodward ruling (1819), and into the twenty-first century, Kaufman-Osborn shows how the university's autocratic legal constitution is now yoked to its representation on the model of private property. Explaining why appeals to the cause of shared governance cannot succeed in wresting power from the academy's autocrats, Kaufman-Osborn argues that American universities must now be reincorporated in accordance with the principles of democratic republicanism. Only then can the academy's members hold accountable those chosen to govern and collectively determine the disposition of higher education's unique public goods.
LC Classification NumberLB2341.K3635 2023
